Heading into the long holiday weekend. Calling them an enemy of the american people. They may not be the biggest roadblock to success. In a moment, Charles Krauthammer reacts to a battle row ail and the entrenched the d. C. Bureaucracy. First a report from mara lago. This the third weekend in a row President Trump will be coming down to West Palm Beach to spend the weekend at his winter white house. This weekend, he will be spending at least part of it interviewing possible candidates to become National Security visor. One of those will be with his acting National Security visor, general keith kellogg. Some of the other names, david petraes, keith alexander, former nas, h. R. Mcmaster, and stephen hadley. National security advisor. Today is the day that President Trump has been hoping to swear in former vice admiral Robert Harward but the white house said he turned down the job due to family reasons. President trump spent the day in South Carolina and event that really brought together jobs, trade, lowering taxes on american businesses. Wants to rely more on products made in the United States rather than imports. What better place than boeings brand new 747 dream liner. Just like you built this incredible airplane behind me, both of them, we are going to rebuild this country and ensure that every forgotten community has the Bright Future it deserves. Those communities are forgotten no longer. The election took care of that. So, were still talking about the election. Exactly one month into his presidency. And were about to see a whole lot more of what sure sounds like candidate trump. Tomorrow will be his very first big rally as president. It will be ache taking plagues at an airplane hangar in melbourne, florida near orlando. This is really a chance for him to reconnect with his supporters. Also a chance for his campaign to continue collecting data on those supporters in the allimportant battleground state of florida. The white house says this is a Campaign Event paid for by his campaign. The election may be four years away but shannon, never too early to start, right . Hes already filed for reelection to run officially, i guess its o kristin, thank you very much. Internal leaks contributing to general flynns ouster to the epa civil ser advance boycotting against the president s pick to lead the agency. Mounting evidence suggests mr. Trumps greatest obstructionist could lie within the government apparatus already in place. Dr. Charles krauthammer joining me now. Good for yous with. Good to be here. Everybody talks about this administrative Fourth Branch of government thats sprung up. But it really can slow things down when it wants to in washington. It may be filled up with some people who want to slow down the new president. I think so. And i think its been its been one of the main conservative arguments against the big government. Its not just that its inefficient. Its not just that it is impersonal. Its not just it restricts our liberties. It develops its own interests. Fdr who was a great champion of labor, opposed government unions for precisely that reason. Now, theres nothing new, remember, in wisconsin you got a new governor who came in, he wanted to change the prerogatives, privileges of the teachers unions, and they raised hell, they almost brought down the government. These are government employees. Thats always been the problem of the great of the large, of intrusive, big government. And with trump its all the more salient, its a new administration, still in somewhat of a building mode, unable to resist. And as you say, its being stung pr the intelligence agencies, and as you said, the epa employees who were trying to lobby against the guy who was sworn in to head the epa today. Some of these agencies are going to feel under direct attack. When you have the president signing things like executive orders that say for every new regulation that we get from the administrative bodies you have to get rid of two. Those are things that take away their power f they work, if theyre implemented. And carried out. Well, thats the paradox, you have to get the same people to carry out a weakening of their own new powers. For that you need a president with a lot of public support. This president has the two hows of congress with him, so this is an opportunity to do that. Two houses of congress. Deregulation is one of the ways to do it. Depopulation of the bureaucracy to allow the numbers to go down by attrition is important. But we are stick with this administrative state. It started with the new deal and isnt going to be ended with one president. How much is about the fact the president doesnt have his own people plugged in . There are thousands of people that turn over when a new party takes over the white house, the way it works. But it takes time to staff up, as they say f you dont have your own people within these agencies, you dont have your own soldiers on the ground. Every time a new person comes in the cabinet, becomes a head of a department, they instantly discover that there are people who are entrenched have been there forever, who know the ropes, and can foil you simply by delaying, they know that at some point youre going to be gone and theyre going to stay. This is a chronic issue, and you want to use the energy and the support and the honeymoon of a new presidency. Controlling the two houses of congress. To go ahead and attack it. And im afraid a lot of that energy is being squandered on peripheral issue. What d f. You dont get a honeymoon, if you go straight to the sevenyear itch . I think the president did not have a honeymoon. He got involved in policy soon after beak elected. His money moon should be under way now. But i think it honeymoon. Bpt it ended in the transition. Hes in, now, i mean look, you realize hes been here for four weeks. Tell me if it feels like four weeks. It feels like a lot more than that. It does. Its hard to remember barack obama. It does. And i think the honeymoon was over november 10, 11, maybe. If he made that it far. Yes. Charles, always good to see you, have a great weekend. My pleasure, thank. You today senate vote confirming scott pruitt as head of the Environmental ProtectionAgency BringsPresident Trumps total number of approved cabinet numbers to 14. 20 other big positions are still awaiting senate confirmation. Seven are cabinet level. Perhaps most surprising are the more than 500 executive branch positions still awrating nominees. Joining me to talk about that and more is shawn duffy and larry korb, senior fellow from american progress. Nice to be with you. Congressman, how much of the blame oigs the trump team, if they have hundreds of positions open that, would benefit them to fill even if they know its going to be a bit of a fight. Well, the most important job is to get your cabinet approved. Weve seen with democrats, theyre slow walking the approval of the trump nominees. They dont show up for hearings, you dont have a quorum. They will do allnight talkathons. If you have a problem with one of the nominees, state it, debate it, then vote. I think when democrats are walking a fine like of obstructionist, its against President Trump and the american people. Americans realize that donald trump won the election. They want him to stand up his government. What we saw in wisconsin dr. Krauthammer mentioned this, another lesson from wisconsin, if you recall, wisconsin state sen nors because they didnt want a quorum, fled the state, went away for weeks. But they timely came back. Wisconsin hasnt forgotten what obstructist they were, a job that was supposed to be done for the wisconsin people. The same thing will be true for democrats, instead of standing up with President Trump and moving forward with this to get the government rolling. You know this is the kind of thing the democrats cried about the republicans, they called congress a, quote, do nothing congress, ran on that, ads, commercials. Do they have mirrors . Well, i think its important to keep in mind when you talk about the cabinet nominees, that President Trump did not vet a lot of these people. The office of government ethics said, they havent got their tax forms. I mean, i went through confirmation, you have to turn in all of this stuff. The other is, a lot of the people that he appointed took different positions than him. So people wanted the hearings to find out. I mean, general mattis disagreed with him on giving Nuclear Weapons to japan and south korea, or nato. And the other thing, a lot of these people, who have been picked, are not being able to get their other thing, the white house has a veto on it. Thats why admiral harwood turned down the job, he couldnt get his dep sismt as the congressman knows the seat he has from melvin laird, he said i get all the appointments. Mattis hasnt been able to get the people he wants, tillerson wanted elliott abram, very, very qualified, wouldnt let him have him. Its not just getting them, they have to get their team in there. How much is that a valid argument, people want their own teams and different president s handle it dumptly. It slows it down. The problem is we cant get many of the folks confirmed or theyre confirmed late, you are behind the ball as youre trying to stand up your organization. Larry knows as he tried to get confirmed by the senate as assistant secretary of defense, thank god he didnt have democrats who treated him the way democrats are treating President Trump. It wouldnt have worked. When you talk about our nominees, President Trumps nominees that they havent turned over enough documents . Give me a break. You could never turn over enough documents to get democrats to move these nominees through the process. The real problem, shannon is that the left is so ee rot yak they cant accept that donald trump won the election. So much pressure from the protesters and agitators to keep the senators from moving the nominees forward. They want them to do everything they can to obstruct donald trump. Its bad for america and the democrat party. Larry, to respond to that, a lot of these hearings and call for documents, even when theyve been fully vetted have one, two, three mum tip many hearings, multiple processes. And you have the democrats knowing they dont have the numbers to block the nominees yet they continue to use every procedural, logistical device they can to stop them. Is the point to send them into the offices if theyre going to be confirmed anyway, bloodied, bruised to delegitimize them or the president for nominating them . They raise legitimate issues. When president clinton appointed somebody to be attorney general and she had not paid Social Security for her nanny, she withdrew. Mo vainy, the congressman, didnt pi not only, didnt pay it either. And he backed it. Normally people get pulled out when they do things like that. Tom daschle, going to be hhs under president obama when it came out that he had got a car that he hadnt claimed on the tax thing, he withdrew. Normally people withdrew. But these people dont. Thats why the hearings take so long, we have to deal with these. You have to vet them ahead of time. The office of government ethics said you didnt vet a lot of these people. Thats why the hearings take so long. And why theyre delayed. As i recall under president Obamas Administration there were those who didnt pay taxes made to it cabinet positions. Its washington, it happens across the board. Congressman, larry, good to see you. Nice to be with you. Thank you. Vice President Trump thats President Trump, now were talking about Vice President pence, travelling to germany where he is expected to smooth things over with u. S. Allies. Theyre a little bit rattled. Don bolton will be here to talk about that. And you may not like it but im going to ask him about the rumors hes on the president s short list for National Security visor. Will he take the fifth . Fallout continues over President Trump headlining dominating press conference, we have brand new polls just for you. Hot off the presses. So who do Americans Trust more, President Trump in the white house or the media . Howie kurts is here to break down the answers. 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There was one problem, wasnt even close to the truth. 30 minutes Later White House press secretary called the report, quote, 100 false. Just a short time after that the department of Homeland Security and the pentagon added denials of their own. After all that, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer went to the cameras and said that. Thats despicable. That would be one of the most unamerican things that would happen in the last century. And i just hope its not true. The fact that it might even be considered is appalling. Shannon joining us pete hokstra former Trump CampaignNational Security visor. And rich fowler, National Syndicated radio show host and fox contributor. Good to see you. Good to be here. Congressman, this seemed too easy for the pickings. When it crossed awas in americas newsroom, we looked at each other and said, what . The a. P. Continued to post on it and expanded on it, sounded like this was a story they wanted to run with. Absolutely. And then the Alphabet Networks picked it up. This is creative writing, this is fictional writing at its best. Chuck schumer should be talking about what the a. P. Did, not what they said donald trump might do. Here are some of the words they used, you referenced some of them, shannon. The headline is Trump Administration considers. They call it a proposal. Theyre going to mobilize 100,000 National Guard, round up, raids, millions of illegals. Unprecedented mill tar saix. Militarization. None of those words are in this document. Then we find out its a draft memo, it was never sent to anybody, breaking news . This is from january 25, its more than three weeks old, and guess what. Trump has done his immigration steps and none of this stuff happened. Its unbelievable. Its fictional writing. But reality is, its garbage, it should never have been written. Shannon and these days, i feel like all of us have to be super skeptical, richard. When something passes on the wires, the a. P. We generally believe it and respect it. Even we had to hesitate and Say Something about this just doesnt sound right. How important is it for the media to have that sniff test to think about it, or do you think, would you admit, there is some motivation to, anything that sounds negative or crazy for this administration, some people want to run with it . This is a tough, tough place for the media and the white house. Heres the truth. The truth is that the job of the media is to report information. If they received what seems to be some sort of leaked document they have a responsibility to release that to their viewers. But without backtracking wait a second, i was going to say, with that being said there should be double sourcing and triple sourcing. The a. P. Didnt do it in this particular situation, unfortunately. This brings to us a larger problem, i said this over and over again, but donald trump is now the head of this government. Its prudent upon donald trump and the Justice Department to really get to the bottom of who is leaking all this information. Whether its a first source leak or second source leak, we have to